Ian Black: On the Middle East

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  How Arab governments tried to silence WikiLeaks

  17 Dec 2010: An appetite for state secrets led to bans on western newspapers and hacked news websites across the Middle East

• WikiLeaks cables: Arab media hold back on revelations about their leaders

  1 Dec 2010: Many commentators, however, hint at a conspiracy as Israel escapes damaging exposure

• Memories and maps keep alive Palestinian hopes of return

  26 Nov 2010: Ian Black: Refugees remain the most intractable issue of the Middle East conflict, as two new books show

• Deadly clashes stall western Sahara-Morocco peace talks

  12 Nov 2010: Deadlock continues after Morocco's violent crackdown on Polisario protesters

• Bahrain's elections overshadowed by crackdown on Shia protesters

  22 Oct 2010: Gulf state goes to the polls amid rising tensions and fears of return to authoritarianism

• Egypt's election campaign shows change is sluggish, but on the way

  15 Oct 2010: The opposition is getting stronger and human rights moving up the agenda as the shadows lengthen in the Mubarak era, writes Ian Black

• McLoughlin of Arabia: memoirs of an interpreter

  8 Oct 2010: Engaging autobiography is fascinating for anyone who has grappled with the mysteries and beauties of Arabic
  

• Iran and Iraq remember war that cost more than a million lives

  23 Sep 2010: Thirty years ago this week Saddam Hussein launched a 'whirlwind war' that lasted eight years

• Osama bin Laden challenged by former comrade

  10 Sep 2010: Repentant ex-jihadi Noman Benotman calls for an end to al-Qaida US campaign, saying 9/11 attacks only brought suffering to ordinary Muslims

• Search for PC Yvonne Fletcher's killer casts old shadows over Libya's new era

  3 Sep 2010:

  Renewed efforts to name the killer of policewoman Yvonne Fletcher threaten to reignite tensions with Colonel Gaddafi

• Fans lend their voices to Fairouz, the silenced diva

  29 Jul 2010: A bitter legal row over royalties has stopped live performances by the Lebanese singer beloved all over the Arab world

• High stakes for Turkey and Israel in Gaza flotilla row

  9 Jul 2010: They may still bristle over the attack on the Mavi Marmara but both sides have enough to lose to warrant resolving the impasse

• Two Iranian students arrested, two UK universities – two different reactions

  25 Jun 2010:

  Oxford and Durham respond in contrasting ways to Tehran's detention of their students

• Kurdistan pitches to western investors as secure gateway to Iraq

  16 Jun 2010: Prime minister of Iraq's most stable region hopes to attract businesses from Europe and US, joining names like Coca-Cola

• Gaddafi the younger looks to consign Libya's pariah status to the past

  28 May 2010: Saif Gaddafi, son of the Libyan leader, has engaged a New York PR firm to present the face of a modern reforming state

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